Riezler
The Riezler (also Rietzler, formerly Rüozler, Rützler , Rüttler, Rüetzler, Rutzler) are an old farming family from the Swiss canton of Valais . The name of the Riezler comes from the original nickname Rüotz (old high German Riute = land reclaimed by Reuten , Latin novale); the majority of the Rüotz are Rüotzler.
When the Valais settled in various high valleys in Vorarlberg , they came with other families over the Hochalp Pass into the Breitachtal (today Kleinwalsertal ) around 1300 , reutted there ground and gave the new settlement its name Riezlern (1493 still "zu den Rüetzlern", later "Rüzlen" "). The family name can still be found today mainly in the Kleinwalsertal and the neighboring Allgäu. There are also some representatives in the neighboring Tyrol.
A grandson of this immigrant family, Kunz Ruetzler, sealed a legal letter against his patron Oswald von Heimenhofen on February 16, 1383.
Its seal image "a soaring white unicorn in a red shield" was awarded to the later Josef Rützler, Ammann of the free Walser court in Mittelberg (1737–1740, 1743–1746) in 1737 as an official seal and family coat of arms entitled to inherit.
Well-known namesake
- Anna Riezler , née Beck (1798–1829), painter
- Albrecht Riezler (1856–1935), German painter
- Emanuel Riezler (1854–1938), Bavarian major general
- Erwin Riezler (1873–1953), German legal scholar
- Ingrid Riezler-Kainzner (* 1959), Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the Salzburg state parliament
- Kurt Riezler (1882–1955), German diplomat, politician and philosopher
- Rolf Rietzler (* 1941), German journalist and author
- Sigmund von Riezler (1843–1927), German historian
- Walter Riezler (1878–1965), German classical archaeologist and later musicologist
- Wolfgang Riezler (1905–1962), German physicist
- The Riezler brothers , Franz Xaver Riezler (1788–1854) and Joseph Riezler (1790–1873), co-founders of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank